The parents of a 5-year-old Wisconsin boy were clinging to hope he'll be found as searchers regrouped Wednesday morning about 25 miles southeast of the Twin Cities. More than 500 volunteers spent Tuesday searching through grass and wooded areas for Scotty Meyer. The non-verbal autistic boy disappeared while the air conditioner at his family’s home was being repaired at about noon Tuesday.

Police are seeking the killer of a 5-year-old boy who was shot while sleeping on a couch in a north Minneapolis home Tuesday morning. The gunman sprayed the house with bullets and fled, police say. It was exactly six months to the day that 3-year-old Terrell Mayes Jr. was shot by a bullet that was fired into his home.

Minneapolis Police Friday announced that two juveniles were arrested in Brooklyn Center Thursday night in connection with the Tuesday shooting death of 5-year-old Nizzel Anthony George. The Star Tribune identified the suspects as two teen boys.

A 17-year-old and a 15-year-old have been charged with murder in last week's shooting that claimed the life of Nizzel George in north Minneapolis. According to a criminal complaint, the 17-year-old told a witness that he fired at the house where the young boy was sleeping last Tuesday.

The gashes on the boy's face are not believed to be from a cat.

The motorcyclist who struck and seriously injured a 4-year-old boy as he sped recklessly through St. Paul's Frogtown neighborhood has been sentenced to time served. Ernest Jonas, 25, of St. Paul, who fled the scene of the May 19 accident, was to be released from jail Tuesday. Relatives were upset. "He don't care. He's just happy to be getting out of jail," the boy's mother, Marcia Scroggins, said.